The Firebrand And The First Lady
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The Firebrand And The First Lady
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Author : Patricia Bell-Scott
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2016-02-02
The Firebrand And The First Lady written by Patricia Bell-Scott and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with History categories.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America. “A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
The Firebrand And The First Lady
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Author : Patricia Bell-Scott
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-01-24
The Firebrand And The First Lady written by Patricia Bell-Scott and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America. “A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
The Firebrand And The First Lady
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Author : Patricia Bell-Scott
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2016
The Firebrand And The First Lady written by Patricia Bell-Scott and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with African American feminists categories.
This book tells the story of how a writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States forged an enduring friendship that changed each of their lives and helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.
Reluctant First Lady
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Author : Lorena A. Hickok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-24
Reluctant First Lady written by Lorena A. Hickok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with History categories.
Jane Crow
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Author : Rosalind Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-13
Jane Crow written by Rosalind Rosenberg and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Euro-African-American activist Pauli Murray was a feminist lawyer, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Born in 1910 and identified as female, she believed from childhood she was male. Before there was a social movement to support transgender identity, she devised attacks on all arbitrary distinctions, greatly expanding the idea of equality in the process.
Lady First
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Author : Amy S. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-02-05
Lady First written by Amy S. Greenberg and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk—a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism. While the Women’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. We see Sarah as the daughter of a frontiersman who raised her to discuss politics and business with men; we see the savvy and charm she brandished in order to help her brilliant but unlikeable husband, James K. Polk, ascend to the White House. We watch as she exercises truly extraordinary power as First Lady: quietly manipulating elected officials, shaping foreign policy, and directing a campaign in support of America’s expansionist war against Mexico. And we meet many of the enslaved men and women whose difficult labor made Sarah’s political success possible. Sarah Polk’s life spanned nearly the entirety of the nineteenth-century. But her own legacy, which profoundly transformed the South, continues to endure. Comprehensive, nuanced, and brimming with invaluable insight, Lady First is a revelation of our twelfth First Lady’s complex but essential part in American feminism.
Dark Testament And Other Poems
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Author : Pauli Murray
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-04
Dark Testament And Other Poems written by Pauli Murray and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-04 with Poetry categories.
With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli Murray’s sole book of poems finally returns to print. There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940—fifteen years before Rosa Parks—for refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, Dark Testament and Other Poems attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murray’s poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.
Proud Shoes
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Author : Pauli Murray
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 1999-08-01
Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
Eleanor
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Author : David Michaelis
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Eleanor written by David Michaelis and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents a breakthrough portrait of America's longest-serving first lady that covers her major contributions throughout critical historical events and her essential role in advancing international human rights.
Let The People Rule
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Author : Geoffrey Cowan
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-01-17
Let The People Rule written by Geoffrey Cowan and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-17 with History categories.
"The best new discussion of the primary system." —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt came out of retirement to challenge William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination. TR seized on the campaign theme “Let the People Rule”—a cry echoed in today’s elections—and through the course of his run helped create thirteen new primaries. Though he won most of the primaries, party bosses proved too powerful, and Roosevelt walked out of the convention to create his own Bull Moose Party—only to make the shocking political calculation to ban black delegates from his new coalition. In Let the People Rule, Geoffrey Cowan takes readers inside the dramatic campaign that changed American politics forever.